Tecumseh

“Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pocanet, and other powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before the avarice and oppression of the white man… Will not the bones of our dead be plowed up, and their graves turned into plowed fields?” –Tecumseh

J.G. Ballard

“Human beings today… are surrounded by huge institutions we can never penetrate: the City, the banking system, political advertising conglomerates, vast entertainment enterprises. They’ve made themselves user friendly, but they define the tastes to which we conform. They’re rather subtle, subservient tyrants, but no less sinister for that”. –J.G. Ballard

Otis Blackwell

“I’d hate to be a songwriter starting a career today”. –Otis Blackwell

James Dean

“Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today”. –James Dean

Benito Mussolini

“Race! It is a feeling, not a reality… Nothing will ever make me believe that biologically pure races can be shown to exist today. Amusingly enough, not one of those who have proclaimed the ‘nobility’ of the Teutonic race was himself a Teuton. Gobineau was a Frenchman, Houston Chamberlain, an Englishman; Woltmann, a Jew; Lapouge, another Frenchman”. –Benito Mussolini

Fred Astaire

“The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any”. –Fred Astaire

Rita Hayworth

“Increasingly, stars are recruited from the ranks of professional models, with the result that today’s starlets are better dressed and better groomed than ever before, though it is doubtful if they are better actresses”. –Rita Hayworth

Stephen Ambrose

“Like their predecessors, the Presidents of today just throw up their hands”. –Stephen Ambrose

James E. Casey

“The basic principle which I believe has contributed more than any other to the building of our business as it is today, is the ownership of our company by the people employed in it”. –James E. Casey

Isaac Asimov

“To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today”. –Isaac Asimov